Tri-West Middle School

Tri-West Middle School, a low-enrollment intermediate school in Lizton, Indiana, one of the schools within North West Hendricks Schools, enrolls 432 students, covering grades 6 through 8. That puts it 27% below the typical public school in Indiana, which averages around 594 students.

Tri-West Middle School is one of 5 schools operated by North West Hendricks Schools, a district that educates 1,958 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Tri-West Middle School shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (88%). The remainder comes out to 7% Black, 2% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 78% White, putting the school's mix visibly more White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, The school reports having 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.8:1. The state averages around 15.6:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 22% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Hendricks County (around 39%), the school's rate is south of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Tri-West Middle School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 60.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 58.5%.

In the broader community, Hendricks County reports that median household earnings sit near $101,144, about 40% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Tri-West Middle School is one of 47 public schools in Hendricks County (combined enrollment of about 33,487 students).

The closest other public school is Tri-West Senior High School, roughly 0.3 miles away. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Tri-West Middle School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 67.1%.

Tri-West Middle School operates from an outlying location.

Five-year trend. Tri-West Middle School's enrollment has fell 7% since 2018, when it stood at 464 (now 432). White enrollment moved from 94% to 88% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 20.2:1 in 2018 to 16.8:1 in 2025.

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